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Is it a sign of dumb or a sign of genius not to know what WASM is?

• nerdponx 10y ago
  It took me a minute, but probably Webassembly
• ygra 10y ago
  WebAssembly. The spiritual successor to asm.js for representing an easier compile target to browsers from C/C++. In any case, the sheer size of LaTeX will make such an endeavour probably not very useful (Download 1 GiB to render a document? Probably not.)
  • WrtCdEvrydy 10y ago
    Oh yeah, I've heard of Web assembly, just not the acronym.
  • leephillips 10y ago
    Almost all the mass in a TeX installation is in the fonts and documentation. If you just need a TeX engine (lualatex) and use system fonts, it's just a MB or two.
    • dmlittle 10y ago
      In asm.js (excluding fonts and documentation) it's about 3 MB https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-worker.js https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-wor...
  • zeveb 10y ago
    > Download 1 GiB to render a document? Probably not. Any day now we'll be downloading 1 GB in order to read an article, so just give it time …
• jlebrech 10y ago
  they you can create a WASMey